Native Name | Boubou |
Object Number | 2003-63-157 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Liberia |
Section | African |
Materials | Cotton | Pigment |
Technique | Woven | Embroidered | Dyed | Sewn |
Description | Robe made of five inch strips running vertically in the body and horizontally in the sleeves; rectangular pocket on front; embroidered with geometric curvilinear, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic designs on front and back in dark blue, light blue, red, pink, and undyed cotton; sleeves unfinished, no seam joining their bottoms; seam joining front and back of body. Yarn dyed. |
Height | 110 cm |
Width | 169.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1894.1.20 - Other Number |
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